WILL TO POWER

CONTEXT

• It is not a normative claim
• It is not utilitarianism
• It is interpreted as a theory of human behavior: Metaphysical, Organic, and/or Psychological

ORGANIC?

“Physiologists should think before putting down the instinct of self-preservation as the cardinal instinct of an organic being. A living thing seeks above all to discharge its strength--life itself is will to power; self-preservation is only one of the indirect and most frequent results.” (BGE 13).

Not a will to life...

PSYCHOLOGICAL?

"Life itself is...the instinct for growth,... for power: where the will to power is lacking there is decline. It is my contention that all the suprememvalues of mankind lack this will"(Antichrist 6)

It is WILL

DISCUSSION

EXIT PASS

• According to Nietzsche, WTP is the fundamental force of all reality
• In its subjectivity, it is the world and cosmos of which we are part
• As per Nietzsche, then, how could you satisfy your WTP right this very moment?
• Write two sentences, no name, pass it forward!